Comment 3 for bug 810907

1. Group management and groups membership
A newly created user is only member of its own group
$ id test02
uid=1003(test02) gid=1003(test02) groups=1003(test02)

John, a not so powerful adminof his home sytem, wants to access his modem or fax for example? Or any other devices based on group membership.

John wants to create a shared directory on his system for Photos, Videos and Musics and only members of group 'personalmedia' have write access to it. He needs to be able to create the group in the first place.

2. Support for profile ?
There is a profile 'administrator' which actually adds the user to a useless group 'admin'. The legacy admin account being 'adm'
How does the sysadmin adds custom profiles ?

3. Home directory
John wants to store additional accounts on an additional disc mounted on /data/users. So he wants users already created to stay on /home and new users created on /data/users

4. Shell
By default the shell is /bin/dash, John really likes his customized prompt, command history and command completion. So he wants bash

5. User Id
John used dejadup to restore home directories from his broken home desktop to a shiny new system and he wants to recreate the users with to match with his poor broken system.
He has a powerful graphical one-click solution to restore nearly everything and must recreate all the users from the command line. :(

That's just a few examples that comes to mind, the most important being the lack of group management.